On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 21:38:10 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 12/7/2019 8:51 PM, Bruce wrote:

>> The real facts are that the US killed little girls, little boys,
>> women, innocent men, elderly. And to top that, you justify it, agree
>> with it. Maybe stick with being the Robin Hood of the rich and
>> corrupt.
>>
>Hopefully that saved many other lives as the Japanese government did not
>care who got killed
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
>R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of
>Hawaii, estimates that between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military
>murdered from nearly 3 to over 10 million people, most likely 6 million
>Chinese, Koreans, Malaysians, Indonesians, Filipinos and Indochinese,
>among others, including Western prisoners of war. According to Rummel,
>"This democide [i.e., death by government] was due to a morally bankrupt
>political and military strategy, military expediency and custom, and
>national culture."[2] According to Rummel, in China alone, during
>1937€“45, approximately 3.9 million Chinese were killed, mostly
>civilians, as a direct result of the Japanese operations and a total of
>10.2 million Chinese were killed in the course of the war.[59] The most
>infamous incident during this period was the Nanking Massacre of
>1937€“38, when, according to the findings of the International Military
>Tribunal for the Far East, the Japanese Army massacred as many as
>300,000 civilians and prisoners of war, although the accepted figure is
>somewhere in the hundreds of thousands.[60

I'm sure that -if I could be bothered- I could find a professor who
says the Holocaust was a good thing. Luckily, I follow my own
judgment.

Anyway, why am I trying to convince someone who finds Hank Something's
posts funny?